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Quiz on Shakespeare
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What did Shakespeare do for the English language?
spelled words wrong
made up 100 words
made it difficult to read
made up 1700 words
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How is Shakespearean language different than the English we speak today?
Short crip sentences; long flowing sentences
Long flowing sentence; short crisp sentences
Loud sentences; soft sentences
Unreadable; easily read
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Define a monologue
A short speech by 1 actor in a play or movie
A classroom lecture by a group of people
A short fairy tail
A long speech by 1 actor in a play or movie
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What are stage directions?
The lines of a play
The lines of the cast
Instructions yelled by the director
Instructions in the text of the play
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Define Soliloquy
Preaching to a group of people
one's of thinking one's thoughts aloud
A song sang by many members of the cast
Keeping thoughts to one's self
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What is an aside?
Speaking directly to the characters on stage
A line heard by the audience but not by the cast
Religious teaching told to a group of people
A story read to a character in a play or movie
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How is a pun used in Shakespeare's plays?
Make the audience cry
Create a serious situation
To make the audience laugh
Create a romantic situation
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How should we interpret stage directions as the readers?
Interprets them so they can imagine the play in their heads
Create new stories in our heads
Look up the meanings to the words
How to find your seat in the theatre
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What are some of the words and phrases he invented that we still use today?
Small, book, food
Eyeball, champion, flawed
Leg, lake, big
Spanish, jacket, sandwich
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What did Shakespeare often allude to?
Greek mythology
Children
Death
Romance
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What is blank verse?
A simple verse
A verse without rhyme
A blank piece of paper
A verse with no words
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What is an Allusion?
A figure of your imagination
An inanimate object coming to life
Expression explaining something without telling what it is
An expression explaining something exactly
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What is a Pun?
A joke using the opposite meaning of a word
A simple child's joke
A description of person in time
A joke exploiting the multiple meanings of a word
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How do these function in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? (Soliloquy)
The audience's feelings for the characters
Share's Romeo's feelings for Juliet
What makes a play more dynamic
The queen's feelings during the play
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How can we read it with better understanding?
Break apart the sentences and read slowly
Combine sentences together
Read quickly
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